Exactly. Politically, tangibly, he's winning, which is why it took me a bit to realize why it made me sad. I think Gen feels like he's losing something. We have from The Queen of Attolia that Gen (and Kamet) saw Irene as being hemmed in and he felt sympathy with her because of it. I think he's starting to think he's hemmed in as well.
Actually the dwarf's Apasmara, the allegorical representation of ignorance, and for some reason that as someone with a seizure disorder feel vaguely insulted by, epilepsy. In traditional representations of the Nataraja, Shiva as the lord of dance, he's crushing and killing Apasmara. Otherwise, there are all kinds of depictions of Hindu gods, Shiva and otherwise, with their feet on the ground. (Also, Shiva's a guy. Actually, since one of his representations is the Lingam, he's a particularly phallic male deity). I don't know of any mythologies with that as a concept, but I'm a mythology buff, not an expert. It's certainly an intriguing idea about Gen making room, very symbolic whether it's mythological based or not.
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Date: 2010-06-13 03:56 pm (UTC)Actually the dwarf's Apasmara, the allegorical representation of ignorance, and for some reason that as someone with a seizure disorder feel vaguely insulted by, epilepsy. In traditional representations of the Nataraja, Shiva as the lord of dance, he's crushing and killing Apasmara. Otherwise, there are all kinds of depictions of Hindu gods, Shiva and otherwise, with their feet on the ground. (Also, Shiva's a guy. Actually, since one of his representations is the Lingam, he's a particularly phallic male deity). I don't know of any mythologies with that as a concept, but I'm a mythology buff, not an expert. It's certainly an intriguing idea about Gen making room, very symbolic whether it's mythological based or not.